History TearJerker / DeathCabForCutie

* "Plans" is another one.

* A lesser known Death Cab for Cutie song, ''Amputations'' should be included here if not only for the line "He's unresponsive 'cause you're irresponsible".

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jduFDgIr598 "A Lack of Color"]] got this troper to tears half-way through, bawling hopelessly at it's conclusion. Lines like: "And on your machine, I slur a plea for you to come home. But I know it's too late. I should have given you a reason to stay" and "This is fact, not fiction for the first time in years" is enough to drive ''anyone'' to tears.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jduFDgIr598 "A Lack of Color"]] got this troper to tears half-way through, bawling hopelessly at it's conclusion. Lines like: "And on your machine, I slur a plea for you to come home. But I know it's too late. I should have given you a reason to stay" and "This is fact, not fiction for the first time in years" is enough to drive ''anyone'' to tears.

** It even has two videos- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rePcHxFJIuU&feature=BFa&list=PL371DEC82FDD90167&index=26&shuffle=669791 the official]], which is simple, effective, and creative... And then there's the one that was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfBw0IWwO5U&feature=BFa&list=PL4B39EA260AC1EE19&index=6
included]] in their DVD "Directions: The Plans Musical Album", and if this doesn't make you cry, I don't know ''what'' will.

** This troper believes that it is because the image of being in a hospital, literally feeling someone you love slowly slip away from you, can appeal to everyone who has ever been in a slightly similar situation.

Like you do/Like I'm something worth\\
Holding on to/There's times I think of leaving\\

But it's something I'll never do/'Cause you can do better than me\\

-->"I have to face the truth/That no one could ever look at me/Like you do/Like I'm something worth/Holding on to/There's times I think of leaving/But it's something I'll never do/'Cause you can do better than me/But I can't do better than you".

* For anyone who's ever completely loved a person, but was scared of commitment: Listen to "Diamond and a Tether."

This indie band is quite prolific in writing tearjerkers:

* "What Sarah Said" had this troper on the verge of tears after they actually listened to the lyrics. It didn't help that the whole song reminded them of some very depressing parts of a certain anime. The real gutwrenching lyrics are 'I'm thinking of what Sarah said: That love is watching someone die. So who's gonna watch you die?'
** This troper heard that song during an adaptation of Everyman, a medieval morality play about who will have your back when you die and face God's judgement. Very much a tearjerking juxtaposition.
* "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" especially with the video is absolutely devastating.

** This substantially male [[{{Moviepyro}} troper]], having heard "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" only once, need only ''think'' of the song and he starts crying. No other song can make that claim.
* "Brothers On A Hotel Bed" does it for this troper when she's feeling particularly unhappy or needs to write something sad. From the first line, "You may tire of me as our December sun is setting because I'm not who I used to be," straight to the finish, it's a heartbreaking song.
** "On the back of a motor bike, with your arms outstretched, trying to take flight...leaving everything behind...but even at our swiftest speed, we couldn't break from the concrete in the city where we still reside" gets this troper every time. The heartbreaking loneliness, despite being with someone, is so powerful in this song...
* Don't forget "Summer Skin".
** Dear God yes. "On the night you left/I came over/And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders/Our brand new coats so flushed and pale/And I knew your heart I couldn't win/Cause the season's change was a conduit/And we'd left our love in our summer skin".
* "Transatlanticism". This troper loses it when the lines "The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flatlands to your door have been silenced forever more/The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row/It seems farther than ever before" are sung. Although, the fact that she discovered it while mourning the death of her childhood best friend might have something to do with it.
* This troper can no longer listen to the whole ''Plans'' album without getting teary eyes and a lump in her throat.
* "Styrofoam Plates", which is told from the viewpoint of a boy at the funeral of his selfish, neglectful father, invariably leaves this troper in helpless, horrified tears -- especially after the last verse ("You're a disgrace to the concept of family; the priest won't divulge that fact in his homily, and I'll stand up and scream if the mourning remain quiet; you can deck out a lie in a suit, but I won't buy it..."), but it isn't uncommon for her to start tearing up from the very first line, either.
** It doesn't help that it's so...DIFFERENT than most Death Cab songs. Usually, Ben Gibbard sings in such a quiet, haunting and almost sad voice...and this song is raw ANGER, and when he starts to lose his temper when practically YELLING at his dead father...it shocked this Troper.
* "Someday You Will Be Loved" is the most powerful song, for this troper. ("You'll be loved, you'll be loved, like you never have known/And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams/Just a series of blurs, like I never occured/Someday you will be loved.")
** It didn't help that this troper discovered this song a few weeks after her longtime boyfriend abruptly broke up with her... -sniff-
* Grapevine fires was mediocre for me, until I thought about it and realized what it was talking about, which was the first time I had really thought about what the people, many, many real people, went through, and I could not stop crying. Even now I am crying a little, just thinking about the song.

* ''Do not'' listen to "Talking Bird" if you've ever lost a pet, especially a bird. I'd lost my beloved pet cockatiel a short while before listening to this song. It still makes me cry.
* "Your New Twin Sized Bed" never fails to make this Troper--who suffers from loneliness after having the strong hopes of finding someone--break down and cry. Especially where he sings, "It's like we're in some kind of hurry to say good-bye..."
* "You Can Do Better Than Me (But I Can't Do Better Than You)", which ([[LyricalDissonance although it has an upbeat tune]]) is about a slowly failing relationship, and the narrator's own low self-esteem/low opinion of themself. Not only does it hit rather close to home with This Troper, she always loses it at the fourth verse.

* Their cover of "All is Full of Love" has this too, to a lesser degree. Only two minutes.

-->"I have to face the truth/That no one could ever look at me/Like you do/Like I'm something worth/Holding on to/There's times I think of leaving/But it's something I'll never do/'Cause you can do better than me/But I can't do better than you".

* "Your New Twin Sized Bed" never fails to make this Troper--who suffers from loneliness after having the strong hopes of finding someone--break down and cry. Especially where he sings, "It's like we're in some kind of hurry to say good-bye..."

* "Grapevine fires was mediocre for me, until I thought about it and realized what it was talking about, which was the first time I had really thought about what the people, many, many real people, want through, and I could not stop crying. Even now I am crying a little, just thinking about the song.

* ''Brothers On A Hotel Bed'' does it for this troper when she's feeling particularly unhappy or needs to write something sad. From the first line, "You may tire of me as our December sun is setting because I'm not who I used to be," straight to the finish, it's a heartbreaking song.

* Don't forget ''Summer Skin.''

* This substantially male [[{{Moviepyro}} troper]], having heard "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" only once, need only ''think'' of the song and he starts crying. No other song can make that claim.

* This troper heard that song during an adaptation of Everyman, a medieval morality play about who will have your back when you die and face God's judgement. Very much a tearjerking juxtaposition.

* DeathCabForCutie's "What Sarah Said" had this troper on the verge of tears after they actually listened to the lyrics. It didn't help that the whole song reminded them of some very depressing parts of a certain anime. The real gutwrenching lyrics are 'I'm thinking of what Sarah said: That love is watching someone die. So who's gonna watch you die?'
** This troper heard that song during an adaptation of Everyman, a medieval morality play about who will have your back when you die and face God's judgement. Very much a tearjerking juxtaposition.
** "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" especially with the video is absolutely devastating.
*** Truly one of the simplest, most haunting, and truly beautiful songs ever written.
** This substantially male [[{{Moviepyro}} troper]], having heard "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" only once, need only ''think'' of the song and he starts crying. No other song can make that claim.
** ''Brothers On A Hotel Bed'' does it for this troper when she's feeling particularly unhappy or needs to write something sad. From the first line, "You may tire of me as our December sun is setting because I'm not who I used to be," straight to the finish, it's a heartbreaking song.
*** "On the back of a motor bike, with your arms outstretched, trying to take flight...leaving everything behind...but even at our swiftest speed, we couldn't break from the concrete in the city where we still reside" gets this troper every time. The heartbreaking loneliness, despite being with someone, is so powerful in this song...
** Don't forget ''Summer Skin.''
*** Dear God yes. "On the night you left/I came over/And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders/Our brand new coats so flushed and pale/And I knew your heart I couldn't win/Cause the season's change was a conduit/And we'd left our love in our summer skin".
** "Transatlanticism". This troper loses it when the lines "The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flatlands to your door have been silenced forever more/The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row/It seems farther than ever before" are sung. Although, the fact that she discovered it while mourning the death of her childhood best friend might have something to do with it.
** This troper can no longer listen to the whole ''Plans'' album without getting teary eyes and a lump in her throat.
** "Styrofoam Plates", which is told from the viewpoint of a boy at the funeral of his selfish, neglectful father, invariably leaves this troper in helpless, horrified tears -- especially after the last verse ("You're a disgrace to the concept of family; the priest won't divulge that fact in his homily, and I'll stand up and scream if the mourning remain quiet; you can deck out a lie in a suit, but I won't buy it..."), but it isn't uncommon for her to start tearing up from the very first line, either.
** "Someday You Will Be Loved" is the most powerful song, for this troper. ("You'll be loved, you'll be loved, like you never have known/And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams/Just a series of blurs, like I never occured/Someday you will be loved.")
** "Grapevine fires was mediocre for me, until I thought about it and realized what it was talking about, which was the first time I had really thought about what the people, many, many real people, want through, and I could not stop crying. Even now I am crying a little, just thinking about the song.
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZUV9IBEXY The video]] [[ItGotWorse is even worse]], especially when the singer's brother/neighbor's girlfriend gets burned up (true story).
** ''Do not'' listen to "Talking Bird" if you've ever lost a pet, especially a bird. I'd lost my beloved pet cockatiel a short while before listening to this song. It still makes me cry.
** "Your New Twin Sized Bed" never fails to make this Troper--who suffers from loneliness after having the strong hopes of finding someone--break down and cry. Especially where he sings, "It's like we're in some kind of hurry to say good-bye..."